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An exhibition with Thracian treasures found in Bulgaria over the last summer shown in ItalyPhoto by Yuliana Nikolova (Sofia News Agency)

An exhibition with Thracian treasures found in Bulgaria over the last summer will be shown for over one month in Italy.

The exhibition will be showed at the Quirinale Palace in Rome.

The precious collection includes golden wreath, ring, golden rhytons with the shape of a dear’s head and a knee-piece lavishly decorated. These artefacts were found in July in Bulgaria. They were found in the grave of an ancient ruler, believed to be a Thracian king, near the village of Zlatinitsa. The archaeologists discovered 50 gold, silver and bronze funeral gifts. The astounding find dates back to 4th century BC and is believed to be the richest of its kind discovered so far in Bulgaria.

Italy will also see the amazing gold mask believed to portray King Sevt III, whose vault was found by Bulgarian archaeologists in 2004. The unique ring that belonged to Bulgaria’s ruler Kaloyan and other precious findings, which have not been shown abroad, are also among the exhibits.

Another fun year is over. Now is the time to celebrate the new one.

As you probably already know there is going to be a Bulgarian gathering at Giorgio’s.

Giorgio’s is located inside Fox Hill Golf & Country Club

Join us and let’s have fun.

This will be my only post that sways from the usual topics at BULGARIANS ON LONG ISLAND. But this is the most important issue in the world today.

It is time to stand up TALL and be counted.

Every single day, 30,000 children are dying as a result of extreme poverty. This year, 2005, we finally have the resources, knowledge and opportunity to end this shameful situation.

While you have read this, someone else has died.

Just think about that for a moment.

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Bulgaria’s Socialists have lost a small percentage of their vote share, officials announced as 99.6% of the ballots were counted.

Late on Sunday afternoon, the Socialist Party percentage stood at 31%. They had 31.13% two hours earlier.

The latest results indicated that the Simeon Saxe-Coburg’s party won 19.88%.

The predominantly ethnic Turkish Movement for Rights and Freedoms, who was Simeon’s government junior coalition partner and virtually the back seat ruler of the country, ranks third with 12.68 % of the votes.

The nationalist coalition Attack (Ataka) collected 8.16%.

The right-wing United Democratic Forces, headed by former foreign minister Nadezhda Mihaylova, collected 7.7% of the votes.

They are followed closely by another formation from the one-time Union of Democratic Forces, the staunchly anti-communist Democrats for Strong Bulgaria of former prime minister Ivan Kostov (6.45%).

Bulgarian People’s Union, including Sofia’s popular Mayor Stefan Sofianski, Agrarians’ leader Anastasia Moser and Krasimir Karakachanov, leader of the VMRO party ranked seventh with 5.20% of the votes.